Munich Murmurs, Döpfner at Daniel, Farfetch’s Grey Zone

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon medley of Puck’s latest reporting.

First up today, Dylan Byers chronicles the Mathias Döpfner-Bill Ackman détente over a quiet dinner at Daniel in the wake of the Business Insider-Neri Oxman plagiarism imbroglio. Is the stage now set for a non-litigious end to this whole affair?

Plus, below the fold: Bill Cohan assesses Trump’s ability to fork over his half-billion-dollar-plus legal penalties. Julia Ioffe reveals what the foreign policy crowd were whispering about in Munich. Rachel Strugatz unpacks the latest plot twist in the Farfetch unwinding. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and political strategist Terry Sullivan ponder Nikki Haley’s campaign endgame. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to assess Trump’s liquidity and other overlooked legal dynamics in this saga.

DYLAN BYERS

A recent dinner between the Axel Springer C.E.O. and the aggrieved hedge fund manager and proud husband likely paved the way for an end to the Business Insider-Neri Oxman contretemps.

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WILLIAM D. COHAN

Assessing Trump’s path to paying his recently levied $500 million-plus financial penalty.

JULIA IOFFE

An insider’s dispatch from the annual Munich Security Conference: Yulia Navalnaya’s heart-stopping address, the ghosts of American delegations past, the feverish chatter surrounding Mike Johnson, Russia-Ukraine anxieties, and much more.

RACHEL STRUGATZ

The latest plot twist in the Farfetch unwinding coalesces around Violet Grey, a once hot brand, and its innovative founder—and whether she has the will and ambition and cash to reclaim her old company.